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File compression discarded from 1.5?

Submitted by Alucard on December 9, 2005 - 3:49pm

First of all congratulations for your new website! (and sorry for my awful english)
It´s been a wonderful surprise and permanent additon for the bookmarks).

I just wanted to ask if begining with 1.5 (about 16 Mb vs. the 8Mb of the RC3) the file compression (.exe, .jar, etc..) has been definitively discarded for the future releases of Portable Firefox due to the update system or if you may ever consider to relese a compressed version (even if it would lack the option to autoupdate).

how to limit profile usage

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 9, 2005 - 3:17pm

first off, great work. i've used the portable versions of your software while deployed to iraq and it was a fantastic experience (the apps, not the deployment =-)

i have found that if firefox is installed locally on a machine and then the portable version is run off a stick/ipod/whatever, that the local profile info is used and not the profile on the portable device. is there a workaround for this?

Firefox Donate button broken? Or is it just paypal.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 9, 2005 - 3:06pm

I want to donate some money to support portable FireFox project but the button does not seem to be working in FF or IE.

"Please enter an amount greater than zero.

We are sorry, we are experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later. If this error occurred while making a payment, avoid duplicate payments by checking your Account Overview before resending a payment.

Message 3005"

Got an email at some address dot come where I can direct funds?

Todd

Your own langauge pack

Submitted by FabianNL on December 9, 2005 - 2:25pm

In v1.0 you could change the language from US-en to your own language, is this still possible in this new version? Because when I replace the en-US.jar and the en-US.manifest (firefox\chrome) files I get a error. I first rename the files (nl.jar and nl.manifest) I got from FF to en-US.jar and en-US.manifest and then I overwrite the files from Portable FF, but then Portable FF wont launch anymore. This was what you have to do with v1.0, I thought, but that doesn’t work anymore.

Fabian
(I hope everybody can understand it... My English isn't very good...)

Could we have form info, history etc stored on each machine's harddrive

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 9, 2005 - 1:10pm

I love portable firefox, but I'm addicted to many features like: form info, history. While I realize that we don't want to save these to flash drive (wear) it should be possible to save these to harddrive of each local machine I use. I realize that the data wouldn't be replicated from machine to machine - but it would better than losing the feature altogether.

Mark

firefox.ini - Can't deactivate splas screen!

Submitted by Bulldash on December 9, 2005 - 12:44pm

Hi,

i am testint FF 1.5 loader since your RC 3 Release. I use pFF on my local harddrive in a true crypt container for security reason. I don't need the splash screen and i try to disable it via *.INI file:
...
DisableSplashScreen=true
...

But PortableFirefox Loader is ignoring these settings. Is see splash screen every time. I noticed that splash screen must be included in *.exe. I deleted *.jpg but the screen is still there!

greetz Bulldash

Portable firefox bug - jumpy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 9, 2005 - 12:27pm

Hi,

Love the product, thanks for the work on it. Just installed it and am looking forward to avoiding using IE now at school. When I ran it from my laptop though there was a periodic bug that would occur. Some pages periodically would be jumpy, as in when it loads the initial google home page the whole page would be jumping up and down about 3 mm in either direction. It comes and goes but happens on every 10th page. Sometimes a refresh gets rid of it, sometimes not. Doesn't seem to be related to the specific page, PortableApps.com did it a couple of times too.
Also, it would be helpful to have on the extensions page of PortableApps which dll's you need to copy over to the portable app's directory to install the top 10 extensions. i.e. addblock, weatherfox, tab browsing preference.

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